CfP: Society for the Social History of Medicine Conference 2018 – Conformity, Resistance, Dialogue and Deviance in Health and Medicine Liverpool, 11-13 July 2018
Conformity, Resistance, Dialogue and Deviance in Health and Medicine
Liverpool, 11-13 July 2018
Hosted by The Centre for the Humanities and Social Sciences of Health, Medicine and Technology
The Society for the Social History of Medicine
hosts a major, biennial, international, and interdisciplinary
conference, and from 11-13 July 2018 it will meet in Liverpool to
explore the theme of ‘Conformity, Resistance, Dialogue and Deviance in Health and Medicine’.
This broad theme plays on several levels. It reflects local Liverpool
health heritage as a site of public health innovation; independent and
at times radical approaches to health politics, health inequalities,
health determinants, treatment and therapies (including technological
innovation, community and collective practices, and the use of arts in
health).
The Society for the Social History of Medicine hosts a major
biennial, international, and interdisciplinary conference. From 11-13
July 2018 it will meet in Liverpool to explore the theme of ‘Conformity,
Resistance, Dialogue and Deviance in Health and Medicine’.
This broad theme plays on several levels. It reflects local Liverpool
health heritage as a site of public health innovation; independent and
at times radical approaches to health politics, health inequalities,
health determinants, treatment and therapies (including technological
innovation, community and collective practices, and the use of arts in
health).
We envisage that this conference theme will also stimulate
participants to think about how medical orthodoxy has been shaped and
re-molded, and how patients and practitioners choose to conform to
conventional practices, seek alternatives, resist or compromise. The
theme further facilitates a transnational conference strand, examining
the construction of, and attitudes towards, Western and other medical
traditions and health systems. In light of this theme, the 2018
conference committee encourages papers, sessions, round-tables and other
interventions that examine, challenge, and refine histories of
conformity, resistance, dialogue and deviance in medicine and health.
These might be set in relation to inclusions, exclusions and injustices;
insiders, outsiders and mediators; peoples, places and cultures; and
diverse and expanding new social histories of health and medicine.
But the biennial conference is not exclusive in terms of its theme,
and reflects the diversity of the discipline of the social history of
medicine. Proposals that consider all topics relevant to histories of
health and medicine broadly conceived are invited. Nor are submissions
restricted to any area of study: we welcome a range of disciplinary
approaches, time periods and geographical contexts. Submissions from
scholars across the range of career stages are most welcome, and
especially from postgraduate and early career researchers.
Possible topics include:
- Health and medicine in colonial, postcolonial and transnational contexts
- The political economy of health and medicine
- Theories and practices of conformity and deviancy in health and medicine
- New ways of framing working within the social history of medicine
- Radical politics and resistance to dominant medical knowledge and practice
- Critical theory and social movements such as feminist, postcolonial, disability and queer theory and activism in relation to health and medicine
- Relations between different cultures of health and medicine
- Inequalities of health and medical care
- Public health
- The environment and health
- Animals, disease and health
- Work and health
- Arts and health
- Popular representations of health and medicine
Individual submissions should include a 250 word abstract, including
five key words and a one paragraph CV/resume with contact information.
Panel submissions should include three papers (each with a 250 word
abstract, including five key words and a short CV), a chair, and a
100-word panel abstract.
Round table submissions should include the names of four participants
(each with a short CV), a chair, a 500-word abstract and five key words.
We also invite poster presentations, short films and ideas for new sessions.
Deadline for Proposals
Friday 2 February 2018
Bursaries
The Society offers bursaries to assist students in meeting the
financial costs of attending the conference. Find out more and how to
apply here.